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When I installed Windows it gave me the option of which of those two drives I wanted to install windows on.

Over the next few days I ran the disk provided by my mobo to get things going.

Installed XMBC and Powerdvd watched a BR and added files from an external to the XMBC library.

Now today I went and plugged in another external (as it was old and I had forgotten what was on it). I used Windows explorer to see it by clicking on computer. That's when I noticed that I could see the
SSD, both externals, the BR drive but not the internal 2 TB drive.

Also, there are two other drives that you can see.... each one is associated with one of the two externals and has little to no memory.... they always appear and I've largely ignored them over the year.

Looking at the Silverstone case I flicked a switch that opens a swinging door and I could see the 2 TB drive inside and the case had a blue light (which I assume indicates that hte drive in that slot is recieving power or active.

here it gives me description of two fixed hard drives the ADATA which is my ssd and WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 which i assume is my WD 2 TB green drive as it's partition size of 1.8TB makes sense.

This was the only place I was able to see evidence of the second drive

Is there something to do with the motherboard or when you set up the computer because I broght it home, installed windows, ran the mobo provided disk but maybe I didn't do something to activate the drive?

3) Thanks for the directions to get to disk management..... I typed it into search line when you click on the windows icon but came up empty handed. Maybe it was an older version of windows where disk management was found in the program section or just hazy memory. Anyways, Win 7 64 bit does not.

1) Thank you for the responses!
2) I will provide a screen shot when I get home from work tonight
3) Thanks for the directions to get to disk management..... I typed it into search line when you click on the windows icon but came up empty handed. Maybe it was an older version of windows where disk management was found in the program section or just hazy memory. Anyways, Win 7 64 bit does not.

If you type Disk Management in the search line, it should come up with "create and format hard disk partitions" if you click this it should take you to Disk Management

Looking at the two drives on the screen for the ssd it describes the partition
disk 0 partition 0
disk 0 partition 1
but for the WD HD
it just says
partitions 0
Mind you I have not even set up partitions of any kind yet

The SSD will have two partitions because it is the boot drive. Partition 0 is a 100MB hidden boot partition that is set up when Windows is installed. Partiton 1 is the NTFS partition.

Windows sees your second drive so that's good. Now you need to find out if the partition is formatted and Disk Management will tell you that. The easiest way to bring it up is to click Start, type diskmgmt.msc in the text box, then press Enter.

Googled WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 was happy to see that it was the code for the WD green drive.
Can't wait to get home to make a screen shot and try out disk management.... if it sees it will I have to format or partition it?
Part of me thinks that's possible as the people who assembeld the PC would not have been able to do that prior to me installing windows. Is that line of thinking correct?

Most likely just needs a drive letter assigned. My HDDs are Seagate, and I did have to convert them to GPT because they are over 2.XXTB, but otherwise it was a cinch to do. And yes, I believe you would need an OS to assign a drive letter, because the OS is what needs it. (If you can see the drive in Disk Mgmt or Device Mgr, then it's the OS and not the build)

It's very possible they slapped the second drive in there without partitioning and formatting it first.It could have been partitioned/formatted prior to installing Windows and a fresh install would have picked it up, though it's less confusing for people if they don't encounter 2 drives when installing Windows. Prevents them from installing to the wrong drive.